Maximizing the value of cottonseed for our member owners, Producing quality products for our customers
Processing and Marketing Cottonseed Cooperative
OUR PREMIUM MILLING PRODUCTS
Why PYCO?
With almost 50 member gins and over 80 years of cottonseed processing experience, PYCO Industries is the largest cottonseed cooperative. We provide our members with access to high-quality cottonseed products and the resources they need to access a broader market for their own.
The PYCO Advantage
With an ownership of PYCO, there is no guesswork in expanding your market reach. PYCO grants gin members the ability to:
- Reach a broader network of customers
- Garner a higher price for their cottonseed and its products
- Expand the member access to other markets in order to maintain a full crush and plentiful cottonseed to sell each year
Plainsman Switching
Plainsman Switching Company (PSC) is a short-line railroad located in Lubbock, Texas, interchanging with the BNSF Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad in downtown Lubbock. PSC is a subsidiary of PYCO Industries and operates 18 miles of railroad within the city of Lubbock east of I-27, with rail access to property along South East Loop 289 between 19th and 50th Streets, the South Loop 289 from Southeast Drive to Hwy 84, as well as track located in the Warehouse District.
(806) 744-0118.PSC serves a variety of customers, shipping and receiving commodities such as grain, chemicals, cottonseed, cottonseed oil, specialty sands, non-perishable food items, oil field supplies, and lumber. Our office is located at 3204 Juniper Street, and we invite you to stop in and visit us about your shipping needs, or call the office at
Sweetwater Transloading
Cape and Son's agriculture warehouse in Sweetwater, Texas experienced a large expansion in 2013 to transform the facility from a small manifest grain elevator into a multi-track train facility. As a BNSF Premier Transload Facility, the Sweetwater Logistics Center serves as a multi-commodity transloading facility for various industries targeting the Permian Basin and West Texas. Whether you are looking for rail-to-truck or truck-to-rail, we have the experience and infrastructure to handle your transloading needs. Cape and Son brings decades of experience in getting products from point to point with a wide variety of equipment and conveyance systems. We are able to handle many types of products on both manifest and unit trains including agriculture products, pipe, frac sand, crude oil, aggregate, steel coils and more.
PYCO Proud
PYCO Industries, Inc. is the largest cottonseed oil mill processing facility in the nation. Built in 2021, the new delinting process brings PYCO into the 21st century.
Environmentally Friendly
The new process was designed to run with state-of-the-art filters that clean all air that is exhausted during production. This reduces its total emissions by over 80%.
Pioneering the Future
This new process is also designed around an electrical control system that allows us to monitor, control, and reduce our electrical consumption by over 10%. We can also proudly say that all materials and labor used to build this new process were all made in the USA and regionally sourced.